Thinking About trying Space Engineers

[flyin_ruski]

Is it any good from those who have played it? It seems a little like Minecraft. How many people play online?

I hope its not WW2 dog fighting in space like other games. KSP has pretty much ruined the fun in those for me.

[The Destroyer]

Well, MP is still in alpha stages, but usually 10 per area, and people build. 'tis fun, but I don't play much.

[TechnicalK3rbal]

I bought it, and it's fun, but it was more because I knew I would want to play it in the future when the price would be much higher.

[Aghanim]

SE have a weird bug when I tried that in my friend's computer. The top speed there is at ~100 m/s, slow by today's standard, and if you achieve that top speed and you get out from your control console you couldn't walk forward because of the speed limit...

[TechnicalK3rbal]

SE have a weird bug when I tried that in my friend's computer. The top speed there is at ~100 m/s, slow by today's standard, and if you achieve that top speed and you get out from your control console you couldn't walk forward because of the speed limit...

Yes, the speed limit is only 104 m/s

[The Destroyer]

Yea, I think that's due to physics. Imagine trying to calculate a crash at 500 m/s. It might crash, glitch out, or just go straight through.

[Lordherrmann]

The game itself is pretty cool, but the MP is quite buggy. I'm pretty sure though, that it gets better with every update. One thin I'm missing since today is the ability to use small ship parts in large ships. I built a vessel, with quite spacious cabins for a crew of six, but after finishing ship, those cabins seemed so empty, almost like prison cells. I would have loved to build some furniture using the small parts.

[flyin_ruski]

welp i bought it. Seems pretty on point to what you all had said. I look forward to seeing what it is like a few updates down the road.

Thanks for the info!

[landeTLS]

I tried space engineers some time ago thinking it would be fun and have some cool physics simulations. Boy was i wrong. The gravity is all wrong and unrealistic(ie if you step off a ledge in space you start falling away from the object. I ended up just playing it for 30 min and those 30 min i wish i had spent on something else) i know its alpha and all but this is the kind of game i can already see is going in a wrong direction and is fundementally flawed in its gameplay.

All is only my opinion ofcourse. Im sure some ppl found it enjoyable. For reference i really dont like minecraft. So if you like that then this follows a similar concept with the blocks.

Edited March 5, 2014 by landeTLS

[Aghanim]

I tried space engineers some time ago thinking it would be fun and have some cool physics simulations. Boy was i wrong. The gravity is all wrong and unrealistic(ie if you step off a ledge in space you start falling away from the object. I ended up just playing it for 30 min and those 30 min i wish i had spent on something else) i know its alpha and all but this is the kind of game i can already see is going in a wrong direction and is fundementally flawed in its gameplay.

All is only my opinion ofcourse. Im sure some ppl found it enjoyable. For reference i really dont like minecraft. So if you like that then this follows a similar concept with the blocks.

Honestly that is a good question. If we in the future succeeds to invent artificial gravity without tricks like using centrifugal force, will that gravity generator/gravity plating emits gravity at all directions or only at one point like a spotlight? I have seen Halo 4 Spartan Assault in youtube and the 4 km large mothership drops smaller ~500m spacecrafts in space. ---->>>> lets split this question into a new thread before derailing this thread

[Thiel]

I tried space engineers some time ago thinking it would be fun and have some cool physics simulations. Boy was i wrong. The gravity is all wrong and unrealistic(ie if you step off a ledge in space you start falling away from the object. I ended up just playing it for 30 min and those 30 min i wish i had spent on something else) i know its alpha and all but this is the kind of game i can already see is going in a wrong direction and is fundementally flawed in its gameplay.

All is only my opinion ofcourse. Im sure some ppl found it enjoyable. For reference i really dont like minecraft. So if you like that then this follows a similar concept with the blocks.

Out of interest, if you didn't like minecraft, why did you expect to like minecraft in space?

[landeTLS]

Out of interest, if you didn't like minecraft, why did you expect to like minecraft in space?

Well. I really like space games. So i usually atleast try games of the genre and especially indie games. It took a long time for me to discover ksp because i wasnt sure id like it so today i keep an open mind. But i think my expectations regarding Orbital mechanics and gravity simulation i got from ksp has ruined most other games for me:P